Chapter Chapters : ' Hazel Depressed : Fixated On Death '

This story is about Hazel Lancaster, a 16-year-old girl with cancer, and when she meets Augustus Waters, a previous cancer patient who had his leg amputated to stop the cancer in his leg. In the beginning, Hazel’s mom makes her go back to a cancer support group for teens. She goes and meets Augustus Waters. While hanging out at his house the evening they met, he wanted her to read his favorite book, which was an action book. She agreed on one condition, he has to read her favorite book, An Imperial Affliction. He likes the book but does not like how it ends in the middle of a sentence, without knowing what happens to the characters

In The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, Hazel Grace Lancaster is diagnosed with terminal cancer at the very early age of only 13 years old. Hazel identifies herself as the

He shapes this story around the form of a teenage girl named Hazel Lancaster, who believes that her terminal lung cancer is simply a ‘side effect of dying’. Hazel has undergone various treatments since she was a child, but she knows that death could be at the next traffic lights. She stumbles upon Augustus Waters one day, who introduces her into a world of initial frustration, which consequently develops into mutual understanding. The two spend many days and experiences together, bonding over quick witted remarks and their common circumstances, eventually blossoming into young love.

No matter how old you are, you might know what It feels like to lose a loved one. Hazel Grace has never been anything but terminal, until she meets Augustus Waters, and that’s when her story is about to be completely rewritten. The novel is an emotional roller coaster dealing with first loves, terminal illnesses, secrets, passion and trust. In the novel, The Fault In Our Stars, Hazel Grace must go through what any person with a terminal disease must go through and beyond that: overcoming a terminal disease, love, and fear.

For this project, I decided to read “The Fault in Our Stars,” a novel written by John Green. This book is about 16 year old Hazel Grace, who is diagnosed with thyroid cancer. She attends weekly Cancer Support Group, where she meets Augustus Waters, a “very intelligent and hot” boy who is currently in remission. They both take a liking for each other, their relationship growing and developing throughout the book as they fight cancer together. Along the way, Hazel learns many important lessons about life.

“You know… its kids’ stuff, but I always thought my obituary would be in all the newspapers, that I’d have a story worth telling. I always had this secret suspicion that I was special” (Green, 240). When Augustus and Hazel meet at his house after support group he shows her his medals and tells her the story of how he used to be a basketball player till the day he got diagnosed with osteosarcoma cancer, a type of bone cancer that spreads from one limb in the skeleton to another, which is why he has an artificial leg. Augustus also tells her about his family and sisters then asks her

It is sudden news to Hazel Grace, she had no idea that it had come to that. It should have strong symbolic or metaphoric possibilities: I have interpreted cancer in this story to represent the weakness within the characters. Cancer in the novel is meant to represent going against the conventions of the feel-good falsehoods of battling cancer that coddles the public against the terrible subject. Augustus’ death is extremely symbolic because he dies in the most pitiful of ways. It was humiliating for he and Hazel Grace with his constant bed-wetting, disability to walk, and the complete lack of whom he once was.

In conclusion, John Green uses the characters of Hazel and Augustus to portray the theme of ‘the necessity of suffering’. This novel has changed my perspective of terminal illnesses. Before reading the novel, I was not quite away of what it was like to live with an illness as severe as cancer, yet still carrying on with a normal lifestyle. Also, I was able to achieve insight about society’s view about cancer patients. Since Green has not ended the novel stating whether Hazel lives or dies, he stated in an interview that it was up to the readers to create Hazel’s ending with their imagination. I predict that Hazel will pass away. Her cancer was very severe and there were hints about Hazel becoming weaker. I would definitely recommend this book as it was an enjoyable, yet heart

can make the experience a little less sucky. Hazel found Gus and became Isaac’s friend too. She got out and did things with them. They egged Isaac’s ex’s car. They would hang out in Gus’s basement. They enjoyed each other’s company. Esther got connected to people through her interests on the internet. She became more family oriented and allowed them to help her. She let her religion get stronger. She kept a positive attitude and didn’t let it become another side effect of the cancer.

The passage that I connected most with was when Gus had a recurrence of cancer. Hazel found out that Gus had cancer when they were in Amsterdam visiting the author of Hazel’s favorite book, “An Imperial Affliction”, by Peter Van Houten. Gus discovered he had cancer after he decided to have a PET scan done while Hazel was in ICU. At the ICU, he felt a pain in his hip and when the PET scan was complete, he learned that he had cancer everywhere in his body. In the book, Green writes, “He flashed his crooked smile, then said, ‘I lit up like a Christmas Tree, Hazel Grace. The lining of my chest, my left hip, my liver, everywhere’” ( Green 214).

In the story The Fault in Our Stars, the main character, Hazel Grace Lancaster ha stage four thyroid cancer. Her doctor, Maria, prescribed a drug named Phalanxifor controlled the cancer. This drug was a miracle drug which did not work on most patients but worked on Hazel. She carries an oxygen tank with her because she had trouble breathing cause of fluid getting in her lungs. Hazel went to a support group which started a new phase in her life. Before Hazel was put in the support group, she felt like she had no life. Her mom though Hazel was depressed and had no friends. At the support group that was held “every Wednesday in the basement of a stone-walled Episcopal church shaped like a cross” (Green, 4). Hazel made a couple of friends at the support group. But there was one boy the Hazel really liked. His name was Augustus Waters but people call him Gus as a nickname. Augustus Waters, a seventeen year old boy, had osteosarcoma which is a cancer in the leg. He ended up having a prosthetic leg.

Though sad this ending had meaning, because Hazel was the one trying to separate herself so she would not hurt anyone. But at the end she ended up being hurt when Augustus died, though his death was so predictable

- The next day, Hazel goes to visit Augustus while his doing his cancer treatment

The novel begins when Hazel is going to a cancer support group because her mother thinks she is depressed. During the support group meeting, she meets a handsome boy named Augustus Waters who suffered from osteosarcoma, a bone cancer, although is also is

The book revolves around 16 year old Hazel Grace Lancaster, and 17 year old Augustus Waters. Hazel doesn’t lead an ordinary teenage life, she suffers of lung cancer. After a long time of struggling with her illness, her parents decide that